From: Erin N. (enoonan@kent.edu)
Date: Sat Feb 01 2003 - 19:42:02 GMT
>
>What you call Pirsig's mistakes I call your misinterpretations. But, I
>absolutely could be wrong. :-)
>
>Platt
in his own words how you should take the MOQ,
now don't try and argue Pirsig misinterpreted Pirsig ;-)
Erin
PIRSIG:
Unlike SOM the MOQ does not insist on a single exclusive truth.
If subjects and objects are held to be the ultimate
reality then we're permitted only one construction of things, that
which corresponds to the "objective" world and all other cosntructions are
unreal.
But if Quality or excellence is een as the ultimate
reality then it becomes possible for more thean one set of truths
to exist. Then one doesn't seek the absolute "Truth".
One seeks instead the highlest quality intelelctual explanaton of things with
the knowledge that if the past is any guide to thefuture this explanation
MUST BE TAKEN PROVISIONALLY; AS USEFUL UNTIL SOMETHING
BETTER COMES ALONG.(emphasis mine to help Platt not
skip over that horrid p word)
PIRSIG: The only difference between causation and the value is that the word
"cause" implies absolute certainty whereas the implied meaning of "value" is
one of preference. In classical science it was supposed that the world always
works in terms of absolute certainty and that "cause" is the more appropriate
word to describe it. But in modern quantum physics all that is changed.
Particles "prefer" to do what they do. An individual particle is not
absolutely committed to one predictable behavior. What appears to be an
absolute cause is just a very consistent pattern of preferences.
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